Offensive behavior

[olehippiechick]

This is offensive. Probably no one will read this because these threads are so dead.


Thom Wanton
So, I don't know how everybody will feel about this, but I had an idea. I don't like having my comments deleted. For whatever reason. So, I don't usually post on the OMF community page, because more often than not, what I post gets deleted. This is probably more due to the fact that I generally dislike what is going on over there, but that aside, I posted my commentary on our current situation and, being deemed divisive and ina ppropirate by the OMF COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATION, it was removed.

My idea is this: Everyone posts everywhere all over the place over there to harass them a little bit. Some might see this as divisive, but I think it would help build group solidarity between those who disagree with the way things are handled on the community page.
12 hours ago

Mireille Moya I am fine with that, but I would want others to go in on it first, as they see all my posts as 'harassment", so deleting my stuff is par for the course. So I've shied away. Maybe I'll change my profile pic temporarily for extra confusion. Are you suggesting we make legitimate posts, annoying posts, or intentionally antagonistic posts? Should be around the same day/time.
8 hours ago
Thom Wanton All of those types of posts! I just feel like a cooridinated effort to made against their authoritarian power-trip behavior would ultimately be a good thing. I would like to see more people interested in doing it first, because otherwise it won't be as effective.

[James]

Right, and so is deleting people's comments.

[olehippiechick]

You are both administrators. Your talk of perpetrating trollish behavior should be deleted. Claiming it's a joke or "irony" after the fact displays your true nature. Goodbye.

[James]

HILARIOUS!

My trollish behavior is in protest to fascist behavior.

Since I am not permitted to post where I would like to:

Just to share my thoughts, and maybe explain my actions a bit:

Originally posted somewhere else on Facebook, but relevant: This is probably misplaced anger, but I am sick of seeing this idea that people who are opposed to the way things are going within the group are just disrupters or whiney assholes. Check your privilege, or something rhetorical.

To add to it: I don't quite understand how I am expected to respond when, at nearly every chance possible, retaliation to my questioning of others actions has been the deletion my comments pretty immediately, claiming that there is some policy of intolerance to "divisive or off message" comments... IF we were using direct democratic principles as completely as we should be, and not when it is particularly convenient, than I would have had the chance to say HELL NO to that kind of a policy.

Now, to discuss "divisive comments": Saying, "Hey, I don't like that," is not divisive. It is incredibly productive to have discussions about things that people don't like. It builds group solidarity, it lets us understand the root of everyone's opposition to the status quo and teaches us how to work together. The only way that statements like that, or discussions about such topics, could possibly result in division, is if they are ignored or met with absolute opposition. And, in some cases, division might be a good thing.

I understand that we can't make this all about us, and our differences, but they need to come into play at some point. We need to work through them - probably slowly - otherwise we will actually get nowhere. That said, It is also just as important to realize that we need to set boundaries - things that we will not make exceptions for - and we need to respect these boundaries. I am all for hearing your side, but that doesn't mean I will agree with you, I don't have to, and I will explain why I don't.

Tl;dr, why would I be expected to stand idly by, watching people within this group do similar things, and behave in the same ways as the monstrous and corrupt institutions we are all here to oppose? That is where my tolerance stops. Now you know, and knowing...

[Mireille]

olehippiechick, your whole existense is offensive. You've done far worse than just talk of trolling.

If you want to continue to take a crap, go to the potty. This place is for work and collaboration. The only thing dead here is your integrity.

[James]

I am not quite sure that I like where I have taken this conversation... I don't like being pushed around, but I feel like things are getting too hostile. I also feel like that is my fault. Certainly, I was unaware of the extent of the seriousness that a little organized trolling might be taken. I really did just want to point out how hard the community page is policed, and how shitty of a thing it is to do.

[Mireille]

Well, I don't know what to tell you. I have been pissed off about it for months. I felt the hostility initiated from the admin on that page. I, at least, was never able to even just post information, let alone point out an issue, without getting attacked. No one, particularly in a volunteer situation, likes to be treated with such disrespect (and shouldn't be). When you treat people like they don't exist or have valid concerns, some sort of backlash is to be expected...

[olehippiechick]

Tsk. You're off your meds.